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What is it like to get slapped by a whale? 'Really bony'

By P. Kim Bui, Digital First Media

Posted:
02/27/2014 06:01:31 AM MST

Whales can get sassy, too.

On a trip, Chelsea Crawford got slapped by a whale, and then a video of it went viral. Crawford was traveling with Live Different, a leadership charity to Guerrero Negro, where they intended to do a little whale watching, reports CBC Hamilton.

Then the whale got up close and personal, leaving a bump on her head.

“It wasn't an aggression thing,” she told the CBC. “The whale was just playing and its tail came up.”

When asked what it felt like she said it wasn't dissimilar to getting bonked in the head by a basketball. She said the tail was “really bony. I was expecting more fish characteristics, but it was really hard.”